Re: Anyone using stretch/buster/sid on ARMv4t ?

2017-11-07 Thread Rick Thomas
> On Nov 7, 2017, at 3:27 AM, Christian Seiler wrote: > > Hi, > > Am 2017-11-07 11:49, schrieb Rick Thomas: >> How do I know if a machine is ARMv4t? I have a sheevaplug and a >> couple of openrd machines (one “client”, the other “ultimate”) that >> are still

Re: Anyone using stretch/buster/sid on ARMv4t ?

2017-11-07 Thread Rick Thomas
How do I know if a machine is ARMv4t? I have a sheevaplug and a couple of openrd machines (one “client”, the other “ultimate”) that are still doing useful work. Are they v4t? Thanks, Rick > On Nov 5, 2017, at 1:32 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Hi, > > for the armel port in buster the question

Re: IMPORTANT: Do live Debian images have a future?

2017-07-04 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 3, 2017, at 8:53 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > arm64 > live images are on my todo list already for the buster cycle. Great! Will they work with RaspberryPi-3? Rick

Re: IMPORTANT: Do live Debian images have a future?

2017-06-26 Thread Rick Thomas
I'm a user and a tester, not a dev, and I know nothing (and don't want to know anything) about the personal politics between Debian developers. So that's all I'll say on that subject. To Steve's original point: First, a big THANK YOU! to Steve for taking this job on. I, for one, an grateful. I

A modest proposal [Re: CD1 without a network mirror isn't sufficient to install a full desktop environment]

2012-09-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 10, 2012, at 11:08 AM, Karsten Merker wrote: I do not think that making the default desktop environment dependent on the type of the installation medium would be a good idea; that would cause much confusion IMHO. This was discussed years ago, but (with some trepidation) I'd like to b

Proposal for stage-1 boot loader for use with SecureBoot [Re: [Long] UEFI support]

2012-07-05 Thread Rick Thomas
The fundamental problem we must solve is allowing the *user* to securely choose which OS she wants to install. Whether that OS follows thru and verifies all its parts is between the user and the person or group who provided the OS (could be the user, herself, of course!) We need a "sta

Re: Needed input from Australian users and developers:; choosing timezones for Australia in D-I

2011-03-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 23, 2011, at 1:42 PM, Joey Hess wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: For what it's worth, the timezone database (as evidenced by, among other things, the output of the "tzselect" command) is organized mostly in terms of country/city rather than country/larger- geographical-area.

Re: Needed input from Australian users and developers:; choosing timezones for Australia in D-I

2011-03-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 23, 2011, at 2:15 AM, Christian PERRIER wrote: I'm just not fond of "Australia/Sydney" presented as a choice, I'd rather have "New South-Wales". For what it's worth, the timezone database (as evidenced by, among other things, the output of the "tzselect" command) is organized most

Re: Debian Installer Lenny Beta1

2008-03-17 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 17, 2008, at 1:04 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote: Please use the website instead since there you find the documentation, errada and everything else that you will need there: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ The <[17 Mar 2008] Debian Installer lenny beta 1> link on